It's A Sad And Beautiful World.

I Think We Need To Sort Of Broaden Our Definition Of Poetry, Which Maybe It's A Good Thing That They Just Gave This Nobel Prize To [bob] Dylan Because Blurring The Lines Of Song Lyrics And Also Hip-hop For Me Is Like Some Of The Greatest Uses - Most Innovative Uses Of Language In My Lifetime.

The Beauty Of Ideas Is That They Are Like Waves In The Ocean And They Connect With Things That Came Before Them, And I Think It Is Very Important To Embrace Things That Interest You And Influence You, And Incorporate Them Into What You Do, As All Artists Have Always Done. The Ones That Say They Don’t, Are Lying. Or Are Afraid That Their Work Won’t Be Seen As Being Original, Somehow.

I Think You Can Only Be Nostalgic For Something You've Lost.

My First Film I Made, "permanent Vacation," We Shot In 1979 For Like $12,000, Part Of Which I Got A Fake Car Loan For That Amos Poe Told Me You Could Do That. And, Yeah, I Had No Idea What I Was Doing. It Was Just Like, Well, We're Going To Try And Do This. Partly Because I Had Been Following Amos Poe And Eric Mitchell Around For About A Year, And I Worked On Some Of Eric's Films As A Sound Recordist And Stuff.

[kenneth Koch] Taught Us To Be Playful, To Be Very Appreciative Of Other Poets, To Appreciate All Forms Of Expression. He Taught Us To Be Experimental.